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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Memphis, TN

April 30, 1995Pontotoc County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1995, 9:41 PM CDT for Pontotoc County, Mississippi. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1995, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Pontotoc County, MS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 30, 9:55 PM CDTTornado F0Pontotoc, MSA tornado briefly touched down knocking a few trees down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1995-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
360 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola35 min
Apr 30, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola35 min
Apr 30, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette37 min
Apr 30, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw48 min
Apr 30, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPontotoc48 min
Apr 30, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee46 min
Apr 30, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe46 min
Apr 30, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee26 min
Apr 30, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Monroe32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.